Tzetzes on Lycophron
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Tzetzes on Lycophron is a Byzantine scholarly commentary by John Tzetzes on Lycophron’s obscure poem "Alexandra," providing extensive mythological and historical explanations.
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| Tzetzes on Lycophron canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19020381 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tzetzes on Lycophron Context triple: [Arisbe, describedIn, Tzetzes on Lycophron]
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A.
Iliad scholia
The Iliad scholia are ancient marginal commentaries and notes on Homer's Iliad, preserving scholarly explanations, interpretations, and textual variants from classical and Byzantine scholars.
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B.
Hymns of Callimachus
Hymns of Callimachus is a celebrated collection of learned, stylistically refined religious poems by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, dedicated to various Greek deities.
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C.
Proclus' Chrestomathy
Proclus' Chrestomathy is a lost ancient Greek work, known through later summaries, that provided prose epitomes of the early epic poems of the Trojan cycle and other pre-Homeric epics.
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D.
Philostratus’ Imagines
Philostratus’ *Imagines* is a collection of ekphrastic descriptions of paintings, blending art criticism and imaginative storytelling in the form of rhetorical essays from the Second Sophistic period.
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E.
Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica
Quintus Smyrnaeus' *Posthomerica* is a late antique Greek epic poem that continues the narrative of the Trojan War from the end of Homer's *Iliad* to the fall of Troy, drawing on and expanding various mythological traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tzetzes on Lycophron Target entity description: Tzetzes on Lycophron is a Byzantine scholarly commentary by John Tzetzes on Lycophron’s obscure poem "Alexandra," providing extensive mythological and historical explanations.
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A.
Iliad scholia
The Iliad scholia are ancient marginal commentaries and notes on Homer's Iliad, preserving scholarly explanations, interpretations, and textual variants from classical and Byzantine scholars.
-
B.
Hymns of Callimachus
Hymns of Callimachus is a celebrated collection of learned, stylistically refined religious poems by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, dedicated to various Greek deities.
-
C.
Proclus' Chrestomathy
Proclus' Chrestomathy is a lost ancient Greek work, known through later summaries, that provided prose epitomes of the early epic poems of the Trojan cycle and other pre-Homeric epics.
-
D.
Philostratus’ Imagines
Philostratus’ *Imagines* is a collection of ekphrastic descriptions of paintings, blending art criticism and imaginative storytelling in the form of rhetorical essays from the Second Sophistic period.
-
E.
Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica
Quintus Smyrnaeus' *Posthomerica* is a late antique Greek epic poem that continues the narrative of the Trojan War from the end of Homer's *Iliad* to the fall of Troy, drawing on and expanding various mythological traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
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